STEVENS, Robert Smith, a Representative from New York;
born in Attica, Wyoming County, N.Y., March 27, 1824;
prepared for college under a tutor;
pursued an academic course;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1846;
moved to Kansas, and engaged in the practice of law;
subsequently became extensively interested in real estate, in the development of coal lands, and in the management and building of railroads;
member of the State house of representatives;
retired from active business pursuits in 1880 and returned to New York;
engaged in agricultural pursuits;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress;
resumed agricultural pursuits;
died in Attica, Wyoming County, N.Y., on February 23, 1893;
interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.